color cast on changing colour of blanket

[Candi McGrail]

I added a hue/saturation layer to change the color of the blanket from blue to purple, but even with careful masking I still cant figure out why the fingers look blue.  how do I fix this?

[Damien Symonds]

If you look at the blanket directly below the fingers of his left (our right) hand, you'll see why Hue/Saturation won't work for this anyway, regardless of any cast issues.  See the weird flat shadow areas?

[Candi McGrail]

yes, so what will work?  we were just trying to keep her warm to fall asleep lol, and I couldn't resist this smile...

 

[Damien Symonds]

The only solution I can find turns the little flowers on the blanket light purple as well.  Is that ok?  It's the best I can do.

[Candi McGrail]

Yes, do you agree that the blue is super distracting?

 

[Damien Symonds]

Gosh, I just realised how short-sighted I've been.  I was assuming you wanted the colour to match the flower in the hair, but now I realise maybe you just wanted it to match the fluffy rug?  Which is it?

[Candi McGrail]

Just the fluffy rug is fine, just don't want it to stick out like a sore thumb 

[Damien Symonds]

Ok, what about this?

[Candi McGrail]

Looks good-how?

[Damien Symonds]

Download the PSD file

It's going to seem like a heck of a weird process - first you make it black-and-white, then you make it skin-coloured, then finally you make it purple.

But it's the only way I could find to prevent those casts, and problems with the edges.

[Candi McGrail]

This looks great.  This is probably a dumb question-but do I just look at the layers to see what  you did?  Thank you!

[Christina Keddie]

43 minutes ago, Candi McGrail said:

This looks great.  This is probably a dumb question-but do I just look at the layers to see what  you did?  Thank you!

Yup -- be sure to look in the Properties panel of each layer and check any dropdown menus for different channels on each, to see all the different settings Damien changed. 

[Candi McGrail]

I cant figure out the second layer, levels.  I duplicated the channel mixer layer and it looks just like yours-but how do I make it skin colored on a levels layer?

[Candi McGrail]

Nevermind- I see now that the RGB numbers were changed.  I think I got it-how does this look??

[Damien Symonds]

Great.